Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods

Table 5 Meta-regression of married women and single mothers’ wage elasticities

	On years with common support for the use of both Hausman and discrete models ^a						On all years ^b
Model		All elasticities		Participation elasticities	Hour elasticities	Without the US		All elasticities
Year		−0.020***	−0.020***	−0.033***	−0.011*	−0.018***		−0.025***	−0.028***
		(.006)	(.006)	(.010)	(.006)	(.006)		(.004)	(.004)
Discrete model	0.004		0.042	−0.230	0.019	0.121	−0.148*		0.122
	(.097)		(.092)	(.279)	(.083)	(.108)	(.090)		(.088)
Desired hours	0.225**	0.131	0.127	−0.093	0.246**	0.133	0.215*	0.104	0.083
	(.103)	(.100)	(.101)	(.184)	(.101)	(.099)	(.126)	(.109)	(.109)
Fixed cost ^c	−0.065	−0.015	−0.022	−0.113	0.053	−0.041	−0.105	−0.003	−0.024
	(.071)	(.066)	(.068)	(.111)	(.074)	(.067)	(.086)	(.073)	(.074)
US	0.052	0.024	0.035	−0.099	−0.001		0.027	−0.028	−0.001
	(.103)	(.094)	(.097)	(.181)	(.106)		(.104)	(.087)	(.089)
Constant	0.372***	0.596***	0.565***	1.053***	0.444***	0.478***	0.566***	1.111***	1.106***
	(.091)	(.076)	(.102)	(.315)	(.088)	(.108)	(.078)	(.108)	(.107)
Nb of observations	90	90	90	42	48	79	108	108	108
R2	0.06	0.17	0.18	0.29	0.26	016	0.08	0.33	0.34

Note: we regress elasticity values on modeling choices using estimates on ^adata from 1985 to 2004 and ^bdata from 1967 to 2004
^cWork cost specification in discrete models
^∗,^∗∗ and ^∗∗∗ indicate significance levels at 1 %, 5 % and 10 % respectively